After that first successful protest I stopped carrying a sign for a while to better concentrate on my photography. As I snapped this uninspiring shot the cops and the protesters were both yelling at me to get down off the truck and join the march.

A journalist told me that he liked the last of these skeleton images until he read in the captions that it was a self-portrait. Then he cringed because, "there's a huge moral argument about 'documenting' something you have a stated interest in."

"Objectivity is a crutch behind which journalists hide their inability or refusal to take a stand on right and wrong."
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Appendix
This photo was added at the request of Andy who was one of the individuals taking part in the protest that took place on i-5 the night following our invasion of Iraq. That action was called "When the bombs drop, Portland stops." Traffic was temporarily stopped on all the freeways that slice through downtown Portland. Burnside, the city's major blvd. was closed the entire night.